Tuesday, February 12, 2013

NBA 2K13 Roster Analysis 2/12/13

With 2K Sports releasing their latest roster "update" for NBA 2K13, their rosters are now HILARIOUSLY out of date. I want to write good things about these roster updates. I really do. 2K Sports hasn't released an update worth talking about in a month, and has done so maybe 5 times all season despite (normally) updating 1-2 times per week. When 2K takes TEN DAYS to release a roster update, we expect SIGNIFICANT CHANGES, not piss-poor quality that 3rd graders on 2K Share could trump with one hand tied behind their back.

I know for a fact that if I performed my job this poorly, I would lose it within a week, not keep it for 5 years. There are others out there who feel the same way, and those people will probably jump to EA Sports once they finally have a working title again. If 2K Sports can't keep up with NBA.com's publicly accessible transaction list, can we really expect them to keep up with next-gen techology? Real talk.

Forget about the lack of player edits (though two in ten days is plenty bad), 2K is no longer even keeping up with basic transactions. There are FIVE players on wrong teams and they all have been there for weeks. Donald Sloan is still on the Hornets roster despite being outside of something Real 2K Insider likes to call "The Western Hemisphere."

We have clear department biases as Brooklyn's Deron Willams misses ONE GAME, is slated to miss one additional game (sitting out until after the All-Star break), and has been given a major injury that cannot be played through. In the previous update we had Chris Paul still capable of being used through his injury, while in this update the Spurs Tim Duncan (4 straight missed games) and Manu Ginobili (5 sraight missed games) have no injuries, despite the fact that they are likewise probable to be held out until after the All-Star break.

Butler played exceptionally well filling in for Luol Deng a few weeks back, and can now be considered the Bulls 6th man. He has averaged 14.5 ppg, 8.8 rpg, and 2.5 apg across 6 starts, averaging a ridiculous 45.3 mpg.

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LeBron James
100 Overall (+1)
99 OffAwr (+2)
87 DefAwr (+7)

The max displayable Overall rating is 99, but with these rating changes LeBron's rating is essentially 100. For those keeping score at home, most of the Michael Jordan's on the retro teams are also rated higher than 99.

Drummond's block and rebound ratings should be even higher than what they were just raised to. He has been nothing short of incredible in his playing time, despite being a teenager. Perhaps nothing illustrates that better than the following list.

HAWKS
Jeff Teague (PG), Kyle Korver (SG), Josh Smith (SF), Al Horford (PF), Zaza Pachulia (C)
Devin Harris has been starting at SG. Anthony Tolliver has recently been starting at PF which has pushed Smith to SF and Kyle Korver to the bench. 2K also has DeShawn Stevenson on the inactive list for no reason whatsoever - Stevenson even started twice this month.

You're on point. I wish 2K sports would pay attention to your blog and finally make a complete roster update. I made my own on the Xbox360 using the recent 2K roster update. Search Sumbaztard176 and check it out.

When I saw what was changed in this update I was disgusted. This is getting unacceptable. I change more on my saved Rashidi roster weekly than 2K changes in their official rosters in terms of line-ups, roster changes, etc.

They also seem to only release rosters a day or two after something happens: Rudy Gay trade-roster the next day, injury to player x on a big market team-roster update the next day, etc etc.

It can't even be a laziness thing anymore. They have to just be fucking with us now. It's pathetic. I get that some of their ratings are off (although that'd bad enough), but the lineups being incorrect, missing players, missing coaches, not changing player's accessories for YEARS... all of this just makes me think they know there are things to change and they just choose not to and go play Call of Duty in the staff break room instead.